ALBANY LOWER
ELEMENTARY

Transportation

For the safety of your child we can only accept transportation changes in person with an ID. We do not accept changes made by phone, fax or email.

 

Car Riders

 

AM PROCEDURES:
Car riders are to enter at car drop off by the Student Assembly Center and cannot be dropped off before 7:50 a.m. The Student Assembly Center gate will open in the morning at 7:50 a.m. until 8:20 a.m. All car riders are to be dropped off in the car drop off area. They MUST go through the car drop off line. Students are NOT allowed to be dropped off in the parking areas or walked to class.

 

The car drop off gate is closed as soon as the bell rings for school to start. If you are in line and the chain is put up before you are in the circle drive, you will need to check your child in through the office.  Your child is considered tardy for school after the chain is up.

 

PM PROCEDURES:

Car riders are picked up by the Student Assembly Center in the afternoons.  The school issued car tag must be presented to pick up a child through car pick up.  Without a tag, students must be signed out through the office.  Students will be brought to the office AT THE CONCLUSION of parent pick up.

 

Please note that students not picked up by the time our car pick up ends will be brought to the office for parent pick up.  Students will be signed out which counts as a late pick up/tardy.  Whomever signs a student out in the office must be on the child’s checkout list.

 

Car Pick up ending times vary based on the number of students being picked up each day.  It is important that you are in line at bell time. (3:21)  If you are consistently tardy picking your child up from car pick up, your student may lose the privilege of being a car rider.

 

Only students at ALE can be dropped off or picked up in this car drop- off. 

Car riders are given more specific directions about pick up once designated as a car rider.

 

All School Zones are Hands Free Zones!  No Cell Phone use is allowed during car pick up unless a hands-free device is utilized.

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Bus Riders

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Cars are not allowed in the bus zone area at the back of the school.  All bus riders will enter and exit the bus in the bus loading zone. Students are assigned to ONE bus only per route(AM/PM).  Students are not allowed to ride a different bus from the one they are assigned.  (Therefore students are not allowed to ride home with friends on a different bus, etc.)

 

All PreK through first grade students MUST have someone waiting at the bus stop for them. Your bus driver CANNOT leave your child if no one is there. Bus riders MUST be visible to the bus driver when waiting at stop.

 

The privilege of riding a bus is conditional on proper behavior and observance of rules and regulations.  Behavior on the bus that is detrimental to the safety of passengers may result in privileges being denied. 

 

Students That Walk

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Only students that live in the blocks around the school are allowed to walk to and from school. This is because they live too close for a bus route. Please take note of the following two areas where students must walk to and from school.

 

Students that live in the few blocks to the north of school must have an adult walk them to and from school. Students can be walked to the gate area, and students can go to their class from there. In the afternoons, students will go to the car pick up area. Parents can wait at the edge of the Student Assembly Center for all cars to leave. Walkers are allowed to meet their parents after cars have finished. If you choose to pick your child up in a vehicle you MUST go through the car pick up line.

 

Students living across from Albany Upper must go to the crossing guard and walk across the street to enter Albany Upper campus. Students will walk through that campus to enter Albany Lower. In the afternoons, students will go to a designated area to meet an assigned employee who will walk them to the crossing guard. Parents should wait for their child across the street. Students in Pre-K through first grade must have a parent waiting for them.

 

Students that live to the south of school must have a parent walk them to the Upper entrance gate. Students will enter the Upper campus and walk to the Lower. In the afternoons, these students go to a designated area and are walked to the Upper. A parent must be waiting at the Upper gate for their child.

 

If your child walks to and from school, parents are not allowed to bring them or pick them up in vehicles. If you choose to drive them, you must go through the Lower car drop off area.  (This is the procedure you will follow in the case of bad weather/rainy days.)

 

On the rare occasion that a bus rider needs to be a car rider, a parent must send a note with the student or bring a note to the office.  The note must include parent or guardian signature and date.  A note must be sent each day this is necessary.  We cannot accept one note for multiple days.  Also, if this happens often, the student will have to be switched to a car rider and will lose his/her assigned seat on the bus.

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